1,249 days:

Think Progress comments that the Iraq war has taken longer than World War II. I gather this is an attempt to deride the administration's incompetence in conducting the war. Finding incompetence in this administration is about as difficult as finding a beer drinker at a baseball game or a naked woman at a strip joint, but this one doesn't really work. The war in Iraq ended after only a couple of months. We've been in the post-war occupation of Iraq for over three years. So a more proper comparison would be to the post-war occupation of Germany, which lasted four years, and Japan, which lasted just under seven.